Joan Baez
Biography
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist. Her contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest and social justice.] Baez has performed publicly for over 60 years, releasing more than 30 albums. Baez is generally regarded as a folk singer, but her music has diversified since the counterculture era of the 1960s and encompasses genres such as folk rock, pop, country, and gospel music. She began her recording career in 1960 and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. 2 and Joan Baez in Concert, all achieved gold record status. Although a songwriter herself, Baez generally interprets others' work, having recorded many traditional songs and songs written by the Allman Brothers Band, the Beatles, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Woody Guthrie, Violeta Parra, the Rolling Stones, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, and many others. She was one of the first major artists to reco...
Known For
Top 40 Movies
Ennio
2022
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
2015
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
2013
Live Aid
2004
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
2023
Live Aid
1985
Woodstock
1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
2019
The March
1964
The Memory of Justice
1976
Dont Look Back
1967
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
2024
The Return of Bruno
1987
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
1996
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005
The Making of Silent Running
1972
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
2025
Dynamite Chicken
1971
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
2011
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
2021
Renaldo and Clara
1978
Merton: A Film Biography
1984
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
2025
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
2002
65 Revisited
2007
Slacker Uprising
2007
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
2020
Bob Dylan: Odds and Ends
2021
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work
1993
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
Festival
1967
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert 2014-2017
2018
The Big T.N.T. Show
1965
Bulles de Vian
2009